If you prop up an iPhone in front of your toddler at cava, I’m judging the heck out of you.

[Anonymous]

I am well aware of the exceptions:

We only had a few minutes to talk and needed out toddler to be quiet.
Our toddler has XYZ diagnosis.
And on and on.

But the research is there and the pendulum is swinging the other way. There are few legitimate reasons to prop up a screen in front of your 13 month old at cava while you lunch with your partner. It’s 20 minutes tops.

Knock it off, people.

[Anonymous]

How about myob?

[Anonymous]

MYOB

[Anonymous]

Get over yourself. Judgy fools like you have been judging parents because screens for a decade +

Nobody cares what you think.

[Anonymous]

NP here. I’m with op. Maybe you don’t get a quiet lunch/shopping trip/stroller walk, but all that screen time at an early age is really bad for developing brains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am well aware of the exceptions:

We only had a few minutes to talk and needed out toddler to be quiet.
Our toddler has XYZ diagnosis.
And on and on.

But the research is there and the pendulum is swinging the other way. There are few legitimate reasons to prop up a screen in front of your 13 month old at cava while you lunch with your partner. It’s 20 minutes tops.

Knock it off, people.

For all you know the woman is with that child all day long and this is her chance to have a break and enjoy an adult conversation. The screen is then a short-lived treat for the child? 20 minutes. Not only are you ridiculously judgmental but you have a screw loose to post this kind of screed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. I’m with op. Maybe you don’t get a quiet lunch/shopping trip/stroller walk, but all that screen time at an early age is really bad for developing brains.

But what's great for kids is judgy losers that give their parents the stink eye

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and I agree. It’s not so much the screen time. It’s the fact that parents are spending so much less time talking and interacting with their kids. Even in the checked-out parent years in the 1980s, kids were talking and interacting with other kids. Some of the kids in this generation seem to just be learning to be human at age 5 when they come to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I agree. It’s not so much the screen time. It’s the fact that parents are spending so much less time talking and interacting with their kids. Even in the checked-out parent years in the 1980s, kids were talking and interacting with other kids. Some of the kids in this generation seem to just be learning to be human at age 5 when they come to school.

do your part and get screens out of your classroom

[Anonymous]

I don't eat at cava and I wouldn't give a kid a phone as they can use an ipad or kindle. You have no idea what they are doing on it. Educational stuff is fine.

[Anonymous]

So their kid will be dumber than yours. Congrats. Why do you care so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I agree. It’s not so much the screen time. It’s the fact that parents are spending so much less time talking and interacting with their kids. Even in the checked-out parent years in the 1980s, kids were talking and interacting with other kids. Some of the kids in this generation seem to just be learning to be human at age 5 when they come to school.

do your part and get screens out of your classroom

This, and set a good example.

I have no issue letting my kids use screens out and we spend far more time with our kids than most people. Teachers have no idea what goes on. I've never even had a babysitter as outside of school and activities we are with each other always (and I'm driving to those). By age 5, mine were fully reading, doing basic math and more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. I’m with op. Maybe you don’t get a quiet lunch/shopping trip/stroller walk, but all that screen time at an early age is really bad for developing brains.

+1. It’s so depressing to see how many parents can’t interact with their young kids nowadays. So many kids staring at screens in restaurants, stores, trails and events. Do your job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I agree. It’s not so much the screen time. It’s the fact that parents are spending so much less time talking and interacting with their kids. Even in the checked-out parent years in the 1980s, kids were talking and interacting with other kids. Some of the kids in this generation seem to just be learning to be human at age 5 when they come to school.

do your part and get screens out of your classroom

Teacher here and we have zero control over this. My kindergartens were on screens for math and literacy and I was told it was more important than teacher instruction.

These little kids come to school and have no idea what to do with a person talking to them. They are used to a screen and it’s BAD.

[Anonymous]

I really hope that someday when you are not at your best and need kind strangers to give you grace that they do, OP.

If that happens, when you reflect on it, I hope it helps you become better.